Category Archives: Canada

Many Fort McMurray firefighters, unable to wear their usual air masks while battling a giant wildfire that attacked the northern Alberta city, are being screened for health problems because they spent...

OTTAWA - The union representing some 50,000 postal workers says it’s rejecting a proposal to undergo binding arbitration in its labour dispute with Canada Post. In a statement released Thursday ...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - A massive convoy is underway to move evacuees stranded at oilfield camps north of Fort McMurray, Alta., through the fire-ravaged community to safe areas south of the oilsands ca...

FORT MCMURRAY, AB - A wildfire that has devastated parts of Fort McMurray has exploded in size, and officials say they are now water bombing the city to keep it from being overwhelmed by flames. Offic...

”The whole neighbourhood was like armageddon.” Kamloops man escapes Fort McMurray EDMONTON, AB - A Kamloops man who works in the oilpatch says he was in Barriere for the wildfires of 2003,...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - The Alberta government has declared a provincial state of emergency due to a devastating forest first that has destroyed 1,600 homes in Fort McMurray. Municipal Affairs Minister...

OTTAWA - The new Liberal government delivered a sunny ways budget Tuesday brimming with optimism and billion-dollar spending increases spread across a wide spectrum of society. But the bold effort to ...

OTTAWA -BC’s Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure is in Ottawa this week, hearing details of the Trudeau government’s infrastructure plans. Todd Stone says his colleagues have met...

LOCHE, Sask. - A student who was just returning from lunch when shots were fired at a northern Saskatchewan school Friday said his friends ran past him urging him to get out. “Run, bro, run!R...

TORONTO - There is one winning ticket for the $60-million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw, and it was purchased Mississauga, Ont. There were also 35 Maxmillions prizes of one million do...